Burkina Electric (AT, BF)

The drummer, electronic musician and composer Lukas Ligeti combines a wide variety of musical traditions in his compositions, including the European avant-garde, jazz, experimental music and influences from various musical cultures of the African continent. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who also had a far-reaching interest in traditional African music, i. a. the Zimbabwean Shona music or Pygmaic music. The formation Burkina Electric emerged in 2007 from a project by Lukas Ligeti with musicians from Burkina Faso. Their music is a combination of Burkinabe music tradition, electronics, western avant-garde as well as modern dance with traditional elements.